Note 178 — Chapter XI · JUDAEA AND THE JEWS.
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
The Jews there at least appear later to have had only the fourth of the five wards of the city in their possession (Josephus, Bell. Jud. ii. 18, 8). Probably, if the 400 houses that were razed had been given back again to them in so striking a manner, the Jewish authors Josephus and Philo, who lay stress on all the imperial marks of favour shown to the Jews, would not have been silent on the subject.